![]() ![]() She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She, too, wore veil, vest, chalwar, bangles, collar. From the side there hastened to him another girl, a fair-skinned, red-haired girl. She returned to her place with the pot of black wine. Beneath her veil I saw the metal of her collar. From one side a slave girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous, trousered chalwar, gathered at the ankles, in tight, red-silk vest, with bare midriff, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine. "Ibn Saran, not taking his eyes from Alyena, lifted his finger. "'It was my loss,' smiled Ibn Saran, lifting to his lips a tiny, steaming cup of black wine." Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes.'" I have heard of a cup of black wine in Ar, some years ago, selling for a silver eighty-piece. Thentis does not trade the beans for black wine. "'Actually,' I said to Elizabeth, 'this is very rare. It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee." Since no one was looking, we knocked the bowls together gently, and put them to our lips. Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls. I sat there staring down at them, and Elizabeth did, too. In short order two bowls, steam curling out of them, were brought and placed on the table. 'I have heard,' I said to Elizabeth, 'that black wine is served hot.' The girl nodded and, rising gracefully, backing away a step or two, head down, turned and went to the kitchen. 'And put bread over the fire,' I said, 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torian larma fruit.' 'The slave,' I said, indicating Elizabeth, 'will taste it first.' It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in any of the other cities." 'Black wine,' said she, 'from the Mountains of Thentis.' I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. Term for "First slave" is meaning the one wants to drink Blackwine with cream or sugar, while "Second slave" means the one wishes Blackwine without any sugar or cream. And even in Thentis, Blackwine is commonly only consumed by High-Caste people.īlackwine is traditionally served with sugar (yellow and white) and milk, in small cups. Blackwine beans only grows on slopes of Thentis and because of it, blackwine is considered as an expensive luxury on cities other than Thentis. Blackwine is a coffee-like drink in Gor, although more bitter than Earth coffee. ![]()
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